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Book SynopsisWhen George C Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he asked George F Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure - the Policy Planning Staff. This title scrutinizes Kennan's subsequent influence over foreign policymaking during the crucial years from 1947 to 1950.
Trade ReviewFinalist for the 1993 Hoover Presidential Library Association Book Award "A good analytical examination of American foreign policy as seen through the lens of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff... As such it embraces much more than the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author insists that there was no grand design to American policy in these years, but one is impressed by the pervasive and lucid intellect of Ambassador Kennan."--William G. Hyland, Foreign Affairs
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in Text and NotesCh. 1Director of the Policy Planning Staff3Ch. 2Launching the Marshall Plan43Ch. 3Meditertanean Crises: Greece, Italy, and Palestine75Ch. 4The North Atlantic Treaty113Ch. 5The Division of Germany141Ch. 6Titoism, Eastern Europe, and Political Warfare178Ch. 7The Limits of America's China Policy212Ch. 8Japan and Southeast Asia247Ch. 9The Hydrogen Bomb and the Soviet Threat281Ch. 10Korean Dilemmas and Beyond314Conclusion: America's Global Planner?346Appendix A: Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947-1949359
